Mark Hahn wrote:
>>> I need to judge whether an ip address is local in kernel state.
>>> Can anyone help me?
>>> Great appreciation to any apply.
>>>>What do you mean by "local"? There are all sorts of ways to learn all
>>sorts of pieces of information about ip addresses and network
>>> I thought the query was really "how can I tell if an IP is local,
> xor if it requires going through a router". I have no idea what
> the reference to "kernel state" means - obviously the kernel uses
> the same sequence of increasingly specific routes to determine how
> to handle a packet. the routes are not privileged (/sbin/ip route show
> works fine as a normal user)
I hope this doesn't add to the confusion already here; I, too, don't
understand the reference to 'local in kernel state'. Are you
specifically referring to 127.0.0.0/8?
Otherwise, if the bridging table resolves the MAC address and doesn't
resort to sending a responding packet to the routing table for
resolution, it's local.
Gerry
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